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I'm Farai Chidea.

This month has been a big one for democracy. The select committee to investigate

the January 6th attacks on the United States Capitol began airing its investigations in prime time.

What's at stake is nothing less than understanding how a group of lawmakers, white nationalist,

and political funders work together to bring the United States to the brink of rejecting the lawful vote of the people and achieving what is sometimes called a self-coup when a leader, in this case Donald Trump, tries to stay in power after being voted out.

More and more evidence shows that many proponents of the false assertion that Trump won in 2020

knew that they had no evidence, even as they pushed the idea. Some began planting the seeds

for the dispute before the election was tallied. The investigating committee is chaired by

Democratic Congressman Benny Thompson of Mississippi and includes six other Democrats and two

Republicans, Liz Cheney of Wyoming and includes six other Democrats and two Republicans,

Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinsinger of Illinois. But most Republican lawmakers on the Hill

have kept their distance from the committee hearings, in some cases refusing to testify.

A wide variety of public figures and state officials did testify, including Rusty Bowers,

Speaker of the House for the State of Arizona. Bauer spoke about his conversation with Trump

advisor and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. He said that they did have proof,

and I asked him, do you have names? For example, we have 200,000 illegal immigrants, some large number, five or six thousand dead people, etc.

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